2. Mine enemies would daily swallow me up. Their
appetite for blood never fails them. With them there is no truce or armistice.
They are many, but one mind animates them. Nothing I can do can make them
relent. Unless they can quite devour me they will never be content. The ogres
of nursery tales exist in reality in the enemies of the church, who would crush
the bones of the godly, and make a mouthful of them if they could. For they be many that fight against me. Persecutors hunt in packs. The number of our
foes is a powerful plea for the interposition of the one Defender of the
faithful, who is mightier than all their bands. These foes of the gracious are
also keen-eyed, and ever on the watch; hence the margin calls them “observers.” O thou most High.
Thus he invokes against the lofty ones of the earth the aid of one who is
higher than the highest. Some translate the words differently, and think that
the writer means that his foes assailed him from the high places in which pride
and power had placed them. Saul, his great foe, attacked him from his throne
with all the force which his high position placed at his disposal. Our comfort
in such a case is near to hand, for God will help us from a higher place than
our proudest foes can occupy. The greatness of God as the Most High is a
fertile source of consolation to weak saints oppressed by mighty enemies.
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